head to head
vs
Half-Life 2: Lost CoastvsRetrowave
Half-Life 2: Lost Coast leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); Retrowave leans Execution (Pure Mechanics).
Half-Life 2: Lost CoastRetrowave
Axis by axis
Execution4 vs 5
Retrowave leans harder on execution: Weaving through highway traffic at speed is the whole skill
Reads0 vs 0
Even - both lean on reads about the same.
Variance1 vs 2
Retrowave leans harder on variance: Traffic patterns vary run to run
Optimization2 vs 2
Even - both lean on optimization about the same.
Two games can score the same on an axis and still test it in very different ways - read each rationale, not just the number.